City of Taylorsville Newsletter
www.taylorsvilleut.gov
November 2022
2600 West Taylorsville Boulevard • 801-963-5400
MAYOR'S MESSAGE Dear Friends and Neighbors, I hope you will join me this month in extending a huge thank you to our Taylorsville Police Department and Unified Fire Authority for the substantial efforts they make to connect with our community in myriad ways. We are so fortunate to work with public safety entities who Mayor Kristie S. Overson know and value the importance of community. Several successful events recently hosted by each provide the perfect examples. Those events included our Night Out Against Crime held at the end of summer, as well as the fantastically attended Pancake Breakfast and Trick-or-Treating events, respectively sponsored by UFA and the Taylorsville Fraternal Order of Police in conjunction with Taylorsville’s Parks and Recreation Committee. What a wonderful time we had on each of these occasions. At the Night Out Against Crime, residents had a chance to learn about ways to keep their neighborhoods safe while having fun with family and friends. Hosted by the Public Safety Committee, the night featured a Bike Rodeo for kids that was set up by the Taylorsville Youth Council, a helicopter tour, police and fire truck tours, a K-9 demo, rock climbing wall and UHP seatbelt safety demo. At the Pancake Breakfast this past month, we literally served up thousands of pancakes. Our own firefighters from Taylorsville Stations 117 and 118 manned the grills, as the City Council and I, as well as city and TVPD employees and our Youth Council, all gave a helping hand. In addition to breakfast, those attending had a chance to tour the fire station, see the fire trucks and gather safety information, and kids dressed up as firefighters themselves. (Read more on Page 4 of this section). Turnout for our Trick-or-Treating event was equally incredible. Inclement weather forced organizers to scramble to move the event that was planned as an outdoor affair at Centennial Plaza indoors to City Hall. But the rain did not damper spirits. More than 50 groups and individuals passed out candy at booths quickly set up inside as costumed children with their parents eagerly lined up outside with umbrellas for trick-ortreating throughout City Hall. This type of dedication and can-do determination from our public safety employees and supporting entities mean the world to me. Not only do our public safety partners support and work to connect with our community but by doing so, they are integral to the very definition. The efforts of our police and fire departments truly make our Taylorsville community the best place to be. –Mayor Kristie S. Overson
WHAT’S INSIDE – NOVEMBER 2022 Frequently Called Numbers, Page 2 Council Corner, Page 3 TVPD News, Page 4 Heritage Remembrances, Page 7 Environment, Page 8
Take a Walk Through History with Tombstone Tales Videos Now Online
If you missed this year’s Tombstone Tales, you can now watch the presentations in full online. Learn more about Taylorsville’s history and its trailblazers in nine videos featuring the event. The Taylorsville Preservation Committee and Taylorsville Arts Council presented Tombstone Tales in August at the Taylorsville Memorial Park Cemetery, and the videos of those performances can be viewed online at www.taylorsvilleut.gov. The presentations feature costumed volunteer actors portraying a cross-section of prominent community contributors, almost all of whom are buried at the cemetery. With utmost respect to the cemetery setting, each volunteer recited a short dramatic dialogue to highlight nine individuals instrumental in building the Taylorsville community. One of the characters is an original settler and some of the performers are direct descendants. The event was part of Taylorsville’s Historic Week from Aug. 21-27, which Mayor Kristie Overson declared in a proclamation adopted by the City Council. According to the proclamation, “Tombstone Tales activities will help increase the public’s awareness of the traditions and heritage of Taylorsville City.”
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